Word: dukedom
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...onetime (1912, 1920) Olympic swimming champion, surfboard rider, swimming instructor and Waikiki Beach figure was simply christened "Duke," is no member of the islands' decayed nobility. But as a result of last fortnight's election, Duke Kahanamoku became peace officer of an area far larger than any dukedom. Democratic votes put the brown-skinned native in as Sheriff of Honolulu County, "world's largest," extending from Oahu Island 1,300 mi. northwest to Midway Island. Vehemently anti-New Deal because of resentment over the Territory's sugar quota under the Jones-Costigan bill (TIME, June...
...Publisher Sir Edward Iliffe of the Daily Telegraph; one for Vice President Sir Ernest Palmer of the Royal College of Music; one for Major General J. E. B. Seely for his work in Britain's vast war loan conversion campaign. Prince George did not get the dukedom from his father that British newspapers were expecting, but the hard-working Duke of Gloucester was made a Knight of the Thistle for his good behavior. Lord Lytton was made a Knight of the Garter for his League report on Manchuria...
...breaks the Gandhite movement, restores India to submission and thus saves the most valuable adjunct of Empire stern Lord Willingdon may even be rewarded with a dukedom.* perhaps "Duke of Gandhiland...
...dukedom (highest rank in the peerage) has been created since that of Argyll...
...with noses for good blood relish the royal whiff in Alba's surname of Stuart Fitz-James. England's witty James II, while Duke of York, amused himself with Arabella Churchill, created their son Duke of Berwick.? A son of Berwick acquired by marriage and heritage the Spanish dukedom of Alba. Except that his lineage and sporting tastes are almost royal. Alba can scarcely claim real ''fit- ness" to be Prime Minister. He is no man of business and great affairs like the Marquis de Urquito. Although he has been a Deputy and Senator in the now defunct Cortes...